tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62791230521400574522024-03-21T02:19:40.631-07:00SPEC's Demonstration GardensSociety Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.comBlogger217125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-79728039466116976082017-08-03T21:01:00.000-07:002017-10-02T00:47:30.736-07:00Summer's in Full SwingHi garden enthusiasts!<br />
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It's hard to believe that August has already arrived, though the heat wave and hazy skies (from forest fires in interior British Columbia) have hit us as only mid-summer can.<br />
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The garden is also letting us know that it's summer. We cut our teeth on the early season crops - radishes, arugula, peas - and now the 'hot season' crops are starting to do their thing.<br />
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As organizers, we are starting to feel like we've hit our stride. Every Sunday we have a small but enthusiastic group of volunteers who clean, weed, build and water the garden and then go home with an ever-growing assortment of vegetables. Here are some of the hauls we've gotten so far:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">May 21 - I think this was our first harvest! Kale, arugula, and some green garlic (our garlic was planted very closely together and we wanted to thin it out a bit!)</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June 4 - Radishes, lavender, sage, arugula, and some nemophilia (also known as 'baby blue eyes', a delicious flower in a salad!) </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">June 25 - this is where our berries went wild! Raspberries, strawberries, as well as kale, lots more edible flowers (more nemophilia as well as nasturtiums), more sage and peas!</td></tr>
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Our first tomatoes are just starting to turn red, and we're eyeing tiny summer squash, knowing that one day we will arrive in the garden to find squash the size of our head ready to be picked. We even have a few cucumbers showing up!<br />
<br />Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-35099439527379377512017-05-04T20:54:00.001-07:002017-05-04T20:54:36.218-07:00Cambie Square Communal Garden is back for spring!<div class="MsoNormal">
Happy 2017 everyone! Despite being extremely shy this year,
spring has finally arrived and that means it’s time to get back in the <b>Cambie Square Communal Garden</b>. We have
lots of fresh faces and are excited to get our hands in the soil and
start growing food for the Mount Pleasant Community!<o:p></o:p></div>
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We are running the garden this year basically as it’s been
run in the past – everyone working together. We’re new, though, so a few things
may change – bear with us. As a core group, we’ll establish the overall garden
plan and make sure essential tasks are getting done – and for the rest, we need
your help! We’ll be bringing back the Sunday morning work parties – starting this <b>Sunday, May 7<sup>th</sup></b> –
and welcome everyone from the community to come out, share the work, and then
share some of the harvest (veggies permitting – give ‘em time to grow)!<o:p></o:p></div>
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work parties, last week we got our hands dirty prepping the soil and getting
some early-season crops in the ground.<o:p></o:p></div>
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We learned that last year, the first two beds were getting
overgrown with raspberries – stealing valuable water and nutrients from the
plants that were trying to grow there. So, with a sieve and some muscle, we dug
out as many roots as we could. While we were at it, we tried to clean up some
of the mint that was starting to take over the herb bed. Both of these plants,
while delicious and wonderful producers in the garden, can cause problems by
taking over the space of other crops - so we have to make sure to control them!<i></i></div>
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And with that, we’re excited to get going on this season!<o:p></o:p></div>
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If you’re interested to come out and help on <b>Sunday, May 7<sup>th</sup></b>, please send
us an email at <a href="mailto:cambiesqvol@gmail.com">cambiesqvol@gmail.com</a>!
See you there!<o:p></o:p></div>
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Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-84085467214220883622015-07-24T16:41:00.000-07:002015-07-26T22:19:48.350-07:00Fruits of our Labour (June 28th)<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The time has come to reap the fruits of our labour..... :D </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">After we harvested the peas, we prepared the bed for planting kale. While we were digging around, look what we found! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">These white nodules are the results of <i>rhizobia</i> bacteria that live symbiotically in the roots of legumes and fix nitrogen in the soil. We are happy to have a healthy bed!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Tomatoes are drying out as these are our hottest beds (Beds 1, 2) but we are getting a few tomatoes (Green Zebra) now.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The striped zucchinis we transplanted are doing well. We have one zucchini already forming. You can see it in the picture on the left below - it's towards the back of the plant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We harvested the rest of our garlic this week as they were all bending over from the wind accident last week. In its place, we planted some beets, radishes and carrots.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">The arugula is starting to go to seed so we harvested them. A lettuce head is also forming quite nicely.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">Our very green harvest this week - garlic, Ronde de Nice squash, garlic, greens, mint, beans and peas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">During the week, there was a crazy windstorm. When we came to the garden, we found that all our garlic was bending over! I think that the wind picked up some of our cold frames and deposited them onto our garlic, thus bending them over with the weight!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> We also had an accident with one of our tomato plants that was doing very well - to our horror, one of the main branches snapped in two!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But, not to fear....plants can be quite resilient so this is what we did to try and save the plant. We're keeping our fingers crossed that it works!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The squash in the tomato bed is producing flowers. The flowers are edible - You can stuff them with cream cheese, bread it and deep fry it! When picking squash flowers, you want to make sure you pick the male flowers only and leave the female ones alone. They're the ones that give you your squash!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">How do you tell the difference? The female flowers tend to be closer to the middle and if you look at the base of the flower, there will be a swollen embryonic fruit if it has been pollinated. Male flowers tend to be more showy and are on long skinny stalks all along the plant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our cabbage is being eaten...but not by us! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Napa cabbage is also a bit holey and they don't look as pretty as the ones we get at the store. That's because commercial farmers "blanch" their Napa cabbage - this process involves tying or wrapping up the cabbage heads with soft twine or some other soft material so that the heads are tighter and outer leaves are not so easily damaged. This produces whiter and more tender leaves, plus it deters pests from munching on the soft tender insides of the cabbage!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The 2 sisters are doing well. Another unidentifiable purple flowering plant has grown behind this bed. Anyone know what it is?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">A nice surprise was finding some purple alyssum in amongst the white alyssum we planted. It's so pretty!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">This is our arugula cut back. You can see the bush beans are coming up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The peppers are doing okay but no flowers yet....It would be great to get a few this season since we don't usually have this hot, hot weather.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The lettuce is happy (and so are we!) in the shaded area but there isn't any signs of cauliflower heads yet....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's been getting hotter and hotter in the garden and Beds 1 and 2 are especially dry. We have been watering everyday and still, it doesn't seem quite enough.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The <i>phlox</i> that we transplanted a few weeks ago is not doing well. It was planted beside Bed 1 and I think it's been trampled several times by people who are not paying attention to where they're stepping because they are just reaching for raspberries!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The spinach is bolting (aka going to seed) because of the heat but the alyssum is providing a good ground cover for the bed. We decided to harvest all the spinach.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The bush beans we planted is coming up nicely. The arugula and mesclun mix have been doing really well. We have since harvested it several times over the past month. It's been cut right down and keeps growing back. It's planted in the shadier side of the garden so that decreases the chances of bolting.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The squash is also coming along nicely and providing ground cover for our "2 Sisters" Bed. The corn (you can see it on the right front corner of the bed) is not growing fast enough to make it 3 Sisters! Our pole beans are just starting to climb up.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">In the back left corner, we have <i>Crocosmia</i> (with the pointy leaves), dahlias are in the middle (not very obvious right now). In the front left corner, we have <i>Berginia</i> with the dark waxy green leaves (it will have smaller pink clusters of flowers), a type of stonecrop, in the middle, and <i>Heuchera</i> (dark magenta) on the front right corner.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOQRpanoOIiuGzitXrMta13u5dt2VMILSphvYjJI3QvnFaAehxFwCS5-IQ4eVFkuOm66i4OC75xn6Rsw3ttMCeO_nF0wUoM2Nrn4NQEVzi5gh1BY-Zbhn7uU6S8T08vI1VDIgBnDaX_0/s1600/Jun7-Flowers2.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="480" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicOQRpanoOIiuGzitXrMta13u5dt2VMILSphvYjJI3QvnFaAehxFwCS5-IQ4eVFkuOm66i4OC75xn6Rsw3ttMCeO_nF0wUoM2Nrn4NQEVzi5gh1BY-Zbhn7uU6S8T08vI1VDIgBnDaX_0/s640/Jun7-Flowers2.jpeg" width="640" /></a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I'm still trying to figure out this mystery plant that's starting to sprout all over our garden. Anyone know?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our harvest for this week: lots of arugula, the spinach, lettuce and berries (I think we ate them all before we got home!).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I got to the garden today and someone had left us a present in our lettuce bed! An empty beer bottle!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There were also lots of cigarette butts under and around the bench.<i> </i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><i>We need a cigarette butt disposal post</i>!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">But it's not all bad news though. We also have some friends in the garden!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> A bee having breakfast on sage flowers! </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> A wee bird foraging in our bed...hopefully, it was eating the 'bad' insects! It's making itself comfortable! If you know what kind of bird it is, please let us know!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The thyme is flowering and it looks like the parsley is going to seed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">There are aphids on our fava beans! Oh no! (They're those black dots you see on the stem).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Not to fear, you can easily spray them off with water....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The lacinato kale has gone to seed and we were thinking of saving it for seed but we finally decided to take out most of it, in the interest of space, and keep the 2 best-looking plants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We wanted more herbs in the garden and planted some dill and oregano seeds. The Oregano seeds were planted in a pot so it wouldn't take over the garden. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Similarly, the comfrey was also transplanted into a pot to contain it. It's looking pretty contented in the pot....for now! Comfrey is a good mulch!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The wild garlic that we transplanted 2 weeks ago was overlooked during our watering rounds so it's looking unhappy....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The phlox, which was hiding beside Bed 1, was also overlooked but it's doing okay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The snow peas are ready but because we planted both the snow peas and shelling peas together, which in retrospect isn't such a good idea, we had a a hard time knowing when to pick them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Some bug's been munching on our cabbage leaves but other than that, it's looking well. Does anyone know what that plant/weed is in front of the bed?</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Still on the roll with creating more pollinator habitat, we seeded some nasturtiums and marigolds in the area in front of the strawberry bed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We also laid some cardboard under the strawberry plants to prevent the fruit from touching the ground and rotting. Let's see if that works....</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">After a few weeks of thinking we had cucumber in the garden, one of the volunteers pointed out that she thought the 'cuke' had 'funny' leaves....Turns out it's a zucchini!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Talking about zucchinis, our friend in the little box seems to be happier and has produced several flowers. I think they're mostly male flowers but it may be a little early to tell? The female flowers are the ones you want to leave on the plant as they're be producing the vegetable you eat!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We cut off the scapes on the garlic last week and apparently, you still need to water them for few weeks after you harvest the scapes. Some people leave 1-2 scapes on the plant so they can use it as an indicator of how much to water the garlic. Interesting idea.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our harvest this week: some kale and spinach for those who wanted to take something back. There will be more harvests in the weeks to come!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of the great things about growing your own produce is that you see things you never get to see when you just buy from the store. Check out this strawberry!</span></div>
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Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-23051122188911722015-06-12T14:25:00.001-07:002015-06-12T14:25:25.768-07:00Flowers 'r bloomin'! (May 24th)<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It's always busy in the garden.... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The Californian poppies from last year are flowering and b<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">oth the bee balms (Monarda) beside it look like they have settled in.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The lavender seems to be trying to reach for more sun! It was planted with all the other herbs, which are in the shadier part of the garden.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The zucchini are flowering and tomatoes are growing nicely. We've been covering it since we transplanted it 2 weeks ago but I think it's time to come off since the weather has been really warm. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Something interesting to note - we transplanted the zucchini in the little box (see below) several weeks ago. Both zucchini plants were from the same growing batch but the one that was transplanted 2 weeks ago (above) is doing a lot better, perhaps because it was transplanted a lot later when the weather was warmer.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Attempting to grow the three sisters....the corn has sprouted though probably not in time to be high enough to support the beans...too bad. Next time, we need to start the corn indoors first and the transplant it outside when the weather warms up. </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We planted more pole beans (Indian woman) with the '2 sisters'.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Spinach is coming up and the alyssum is finally sprouting....all over the place! We've been finding alyssum everywhere, all along the garden.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We transplanted broccoli in amongst our prolific strawberries and it's been taking awhile to grow. We finally see it poking out from the strawberries!</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The nodding onions are doing well too and we can soon expect some blueberries! </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The cabbages are putting on more bulk though the carrots we seeded in this bed never took. We learnt that farmers actually wrap their Napa cabbages so they grow more tightly. Will have to find out if that's true....</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The transplanted sweet peas are finding good 'footholds' in the netting we placed behind it. </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our cauliflower in the same bed is getting bigger...</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Look what we found hiding! Yum! It's like a treasure hunt (Strawberry)</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The fava beans are finally staked. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our harvest:</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Strawberry! And leaves. Did you know you could eat strawberry leaves? Check out this blog <a href="https://oftheharvest.wordpress.com/2013/02/18/healing-properties-of-strawberry-leaf/">here</a> that talks about the healing properties of strawberry leaves. </span></span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Back row L to R: <i>Phygelius</i> 'Cape Fuchsia', <i>Phlox subulata</i>, <i>Verbena bonariensis</i>,<i> Monarda</i> "Petite Delight" Front row L to R: <i>Allium triquetrum</i> 'Wild garlic', Lavender, <i>Agastache</i>, Shasta Daisy, Comfrey, Sweet Peas 'Painted Ladies'</td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Not so pretty but still edible!</td></tr>
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In place of the yu choi, we decided to plant the 3 sisters - Corn, squash and 'orca' beans. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The carrots were also poking out from the ground. These were last year's batch so we harvested them to make more room.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><u>Did you know that you can eat carrot tops</u>??</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">They're a bit on the furry side (* wink) but you don't have to feed your compost with them....you can feed yourself!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">You can use them in:</span></span><br />
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<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">stir-frys</span></span></li>
<li><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">make a pesto, etc....</span></span></li>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">One of our volunteers started some roma tomatoes and striped zucchini from home and brought these in today. We transplanted the 2 romas and zucchini in the same bed with a Red-striped Roma and Green Zebra tomatoes.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Here they are in Bed 1, one of our sunnier beds, on the north end of the garden.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">At the end of the work day when we were packing, we were already noticing more pollinators and wildlife in our garden! I guess our kale flowers are doing its job! </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We have guests sitting on our bee condo! Do you see them?</td></tr>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Today was one of those beautiful, sunny Vancouver mornings and a great day
to have a work party. Everything was looking good and we had a mid-week
watering earlier in the week.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">It was trellis-building day! Sybrena salvaged some scrap wood and with the
help of some tools and lots of string, we have a working trellis for our peas!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The mesclun and arugula is looking bushy. We harvested some to thin it out
and encourage more growth.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The yu choi & gai lan bed looks like it's got more yu choi than gai
lan but they're coming along. The fava beans are also doing well and a bit of
kale is reappearing. Some are flowering and going to seed. It is their 2nd
season.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> We found some radishes poking out of the ground, beckoning to be eaten! Our
garlic is finally looking like it's "putting on more weight"!
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The spinach we seeded a few weeks ago are sprouting and so are the wild
flowers we planted.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The fave beans are starting to lean over so some staking is needed. The
broccoli transplants we put in last week are settling in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We found more volunteer potatoes and transplanted them to the potato bed.
Can't wait for these tasty taters! </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"> Last week, our group attended the VanDusen plant sale and bought some
plants - nodding onions (which are native to this region), shallots and mint
leaf bee balm <i>(Monarda</i>). Our onion seeds were not germinating (they were
more than a year old) so we bought some transplants. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">The <i>Monarda</i> was transplanted beside one of the beds to increase our
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lettuce & carrots; trimmed back the sage & mint. Here's a
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Our cold frame was fixed up finally, after we kept forgetting first to bring the zip ties, and then a staple gun, etc....! Rhys is busy emptying the water barrel to water the dry beds.<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEsWksGKkL-1Ao8cmV6V42-PabcuyKDycote39GgKbU0j1hFOVX2k20tfsJk1mhbLAoTiGlAEsJNcz8nC1Nu6bw-76bxyMJenm-Z-m_JRvjTkeJeTz_uqHH52vPuKj2PHJlkwVAuKvfI/s1600/Apr19-coldframe-watering.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjxEsWksGKkL-1Ao8cmV6V42-PabcuyKDycote39GgKbU0j1hFOVX2k20tfsJk1mhbLAoTiGlAEsJNcz8nC1Nu6bw-76bxyMJenm-Z-m_JRvjTkeJeTz_uqHH52vPuKj2PHJlkwVAuKvfI/s320/Apr19-coldframe-watering.jpeg" width="320" /></a></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> Our 'pretty' rows of mesclun and arugula.... </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> The radishes are showing their red stems....</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"> ...and the yu choi and gai lan are finally sprouting after we covered it with the cold frame.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">We planted a variety of peas - Oregon sugar pod snow peas, Homesteader Lincoln shelling peas & Little Marvel shelling peas.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif; font-size: small;">...Then, we went home! More to come soon....</span>Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-64354313933631599892015-03-28T23:56:00.003-07:002015-03-28T23:56:44.270-07:00Short day today (March 22nd)<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">
<span style="font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", serif;">Today, we checked how our planted seeds were doing. Our cabbage and broccoli starts that are being grown at home are a bit lanky so it still needs a bit of time before transplanting. However, it looks like the some mesclun seeds did survive after the pasta incident. They're planted on the left hand side of Bed 9.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">We also found that our friend, the rampant mint has somehow travelled from Bed 2 to Bed 14, our flower bed! I hope it doesn't prevent the calendula we planted last week from sprouting! We'll be having lots of mint!</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">Next week, we'll be putting in some peas!</span>Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-37060435815238868552015-03-28T17:55:00.002-07:002015-03-28T23:33:12.093-07:00Another productive day at the garden (March 15th)<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:OfficeDocumentSettings> <o:AllowPNG/> </o:OfficeDocumentSettings> </xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;"></span>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia,"Times New Roman",serif;">I guess someone either spilt their lunch or decided the garbage bin was too far away?? Anyway, we scooped it out and threw it in the garbage. There were a lot of wireworms and I'm not sure if they were attracted to the pasta or what. Hopefully some mesclun seedlings survive.</span><br />
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We had our very first garden meeting today and got to meet a bunch of new and keen volunteers. </div>
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Our watermelon radishes from last year seem to be doing quite well.<br />
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The raspberry canes are finally tied up - let's hope the vinyl wire holds! The yew hedge was trimmed and we removed lots of ivy growing around the raspberry canes though I'm pretty sure they'll grow back in no time at all. :(<br />
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The weather has been sunny for the last few weeks so we're hoping that we've seen the last of the spring frosts. Because of that we decided to plant some stuff and hope for the best. We planted some broad beans with our existing kale since kale is a heavy feeder. <br />
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We also seeded the back of a bed with some sweet peas of the variety Blue Celeste and Lipstick. These pretty flowers are close to our blueberry bushes to attract pollinators. In the same bed, we also broadcasted two varieties of arugula (Italian & Adagio) as well as two varieties of mesclun (Curly Cress & Westcoast Market Blend).<br />
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While we were planting, I noticed 2 crows lurking about and I sure hope that our seeds survive. I think they were eyeing our broad beans! Let's hope we see some sprouts next week!<br />
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Here's what the garden looks like now but it'll be fabulous come this summer! If you're interested in joining us on March 8th, please email cambiesqvol@gmail.com. Everyone is welcome!<br />
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Finally a few bush beans to harvest ...... these were planted much to close together which makes picking rather difficult, and it appears russet mites may have arrived <br />
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Last bed of potatoes harvested - French Fingerling and Russian Blue - missed taking a pic of our harvest!!<br />
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the pole beans just did not fare well this year - lack of water combined with russet/spider mites damage resulted in almost no harvest - so time to clean up the trellis<br />
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the cleared potato bed made room for more fall planting - this time we filled the bed with Bloomssdale spinach, Pac Choi, Nappa Cabbage (Little Jade), Yu Choi Sum and Gai Lan (Green Pearl); fall is the best time to start Asian Greens with the cooler weather - this prevents the plants bolting and going to seed very quickly<br />
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Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-13833907985085689512014-08-19T11:46:00.003-07:002014-08-19T11:57:16.876-07:00August 17 Fall Fast ApproachingRather short on volunteers of late, but two of us managed to make the garden today ...... really good to see lots of seedling growth thanks in part to the rain we finally had!! No amount of hand watering seems to quite match a good rainfall!!<br />
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A few pics, first up our Honey Bear squash -<br />
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the Lacinato kale continues to provide great harvests - hmm.... almost time for some kale chips<br />
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cabbage transplants, three types of radish and mesclun mix fill the bed; the watermelon radish (middle row) has a very different leaf form!! <br />
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more lettuce/mesclun mix will soon provide baby greens for stir fry and salad - and the Sugar Ann snap peas are starting to flower!!<br />
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still more to seed - this week additional beet seed was added to our beet bed - hoping for better germination; spinach sown among the strawberries and some moss curled parsley under our blueberry bushes <br />
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this summer has been so amazing with "hot" (at least for the coast) temperatures and little rain - the tomatoes are loving it - many of the larger varieties are well in to their ripening phase ...... this pic shows mostly Maglia Rosa - amazing texture and flavour when picked at first blush <br />
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<br />Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-13417980262930010922014-08-09T10:47:00.002-07:002014-08-19T11:53:18.410-07:00August 3 - Time for Fall/Winter PlantingWe did a lot of clearing and sowing in the garden today - a quick summary:<br />
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Bed 1: bed cleared, not much harvested from previous sowings - too dry? Replanted with Nantes Coreless and Nutri-Red carrots, now just to keep them moist until germination<br />
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Bed 2: portion of bed cleared and seeded with Kohlrabi "Kolibri" and scallions<br />
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Bed 3: baby cabbage transplants added, in addition to three rows of radishes: German Giant, Watermelon and French Breakfast; it is recommended the Watermelon radish be planted for fall harvest<br />
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Bed 9: our Sugar Ann snap peas are coming along but remaining seeds did not germinate, so mesclun seed mixes were broadcast sown: Renee's Quick Stir Fry Blend, Wine Country Mesclun and WCS Provencal Mix<br />
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Bed 5 is looking good and providing plenty of chard and kale - two of the best long term crops you can grow<br />
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Here's a link to West Coast Seeds Fall/Winter planting guide - <br />
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Herb Bed gone wild<br />
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and our harvest: chard, kale potato onions, very small leeks, onions and some wonderful sweetpeas<br />
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and a few hours later - off it goes<br />
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our new composters should keep the rodents at bay<br />
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maybe we'll even get to harvest some beets this fall ...... Red Ace, Cylindra and Beet Blend fill in the bed vacated by our potatoes<br />
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a portion of today's harvest</div>
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<br />Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-66972358534169679552014-07-21T09:43:00.001-07:002014-07-21T09:46:02.487-07:00July 20 - Weather Back to NormalJust through a two week hot spell and the squash and nasturtiums are loving the weather - have a look at the baby Luongo zucchini<br />
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our new compost bins have arrived - a big thank you!!<br />
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Sugar Ann peas are up but nibbled leaves are evident ........ even the carrots managed to sprout in this heat with intermittent watering!! no parsnips showing yet though<br />
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the assorted green beans look lush (and over crowded) but only three wee beans to be found ........ hopefully next week we will have a crop - <br />
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the harvest ...... beautiful dahlias, fragrant sweet peas, baby squash, chard, kale, potatoes and lettuce - although the lettuce is likely finished as milky sap was evident on harvest<br />
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<br />Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-54791617007813982552014-07-20T08:11:00.003-07:002014-07-20T08:11:19.795-07:00July 6 - Water Weed and HarvestGarlic rust this year in the garden ........ so decided to harvest - bulbs are still edible but tops are put in the trash, not the compost - will monitor how well these cure with shortened tops ....<br />
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This rust only affects alliums - our chive plants were removed earlier as they were the first to show rust<br />
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out comes the garlic to make room for fall/winter crops - Gladiator parsnips, Nantes coreless and Nutri Red carrots and two rows of Sugar Ann snap pea <br />
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Tomato plants are looking healthy with some nice tomatoes starting to size up - these are Fish Lake Oxheart<br />
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and today's harvest - Silverado and Eldorado chard, garlic, mint and Amish Deer Tongue and Sweetie Baby Romaine lettuces<br />
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Society Promoting Environmental Conservationhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18174742444280631714noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6279123052140057452.post-88819671060310264472014-07-05T12:24:00.004-07:002014-07-05T20:04:34.450-07:00June 29 - Lots to HarvestJust two of us at the garden today - so we decided to tidy and harvest .....<br />
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looking good - a big shout out to Tom for taking on this job!!<br />
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the cucumbers thrive while the peppers struggle<br />
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tomatoes in new Bed 3A are looking very healthy - Fish Lake Oxheart, Yasenichki Yabuchar, Margaret Curtain and Maglia Rosa<br />
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The harvest - shelling peas, raspberries, blueberries, mixed lettuce, chard, kale, garlic, chives and potatoes!!</div>
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Garden overview - pole beans just starting to climb (far left), tomatoes, potatoes and nastursiums all looking good; lots of mint to harvest in our herb garden - chilled mint tea is a great summer refresher and this looks good too - the <a href="http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Nojito-359529">Nojito</a><br />
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Also time for garden maintenance - new broom test run and time to get the raspberries under control - new post should help<br />
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Can't forget the harvest - Little Marvel and Alderman peas, Green Pearl Gai Lan, assorted lettuce greens, kale and raspberries<br />
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the cabbage moth's favourite food in our garden is kale - lots of chewed leaves - but still lots of baby kale to harvest<br />
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tomatoes are looking healthy and the potatoes are flowering - Bed 8 Yukon Gold was harvested for some tasty baby potatoes ....... and just in time before record breaking rains came - what a team - totally soaked but still working!!<br />
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and the fruits of our labour - mixed kales, potatoes, mint, lettuce and garlic scapes - yum<br />
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